Non-conforming Uses of #jesuisCharlie and Derived Hashtags on Twitter
(2018) Language and the new (instant) media — ISBN: [978-2-87558-697-1], p. 99-106, published
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- After the creation of the hashtag #jesuisCharlie, the root #jesuis has become extremely productive. Although most uses of the hashtag are supportive of a cause, there are also some examples of critical uses of hashtags with the #jesuis root. In this paper, we will analyse these non-conforming #jesuis hashtags in a corpus of 1309 automatically extracted tweets. Our qualitative analyses show that they can be classified into two groups: non-conforming uses of existing hashtags (such as critical uses of #jesuisCharlie) and non-conforming uses of the root #jesuis itself (through metadiscursive reference).
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